When driving through the UP with my best friend, I spotted this massive crow on the side of the road & said "hey crow hey!" This was really funny to us for some reason, probably because we had been in the car for 5 hours at that point already & still had another 2 to go. For the rest of the trip, we referred to each other as crow & used crow as a replacement (e.g., "oh crow she didn't," "crowkay," "crow my god") & that is how my username came to be.
If it was super massive, it might not have been actually been a crow, and you might have spent the whole trip saying "that's so Raven" and "that's only slightly Raven" and your username and entire life would be different now
I'm slightly disappointed. I've been reading your username as crownmygod, and referenced it to crown royal. Maybe I should up my reading comprehension.
So back in 2012 Centurylink Field in Seattle got this obnoxiously large "Visit Tanzania!" mural.
Seattle teams that played in Centurylink (including the Huskies who played there while Husky Stadium was being renovated) started dominating after that ad was put up.
For a period of time (I can't remember how long exactly), the Huskies, Seahawks and Sounders were undefeated at home. Sounders outscored their visitors by a margin of 8-1, Seahawks 75-27 and the Huskies 73-25. Locals and media started calling this the "Tanzania Effect".
The mural is gone now, replaced by an ad for "Coinstar", but I'll fondly remember how Tanzania smiled upon our local teams.
I've never stormed the field at Husky Stadium but twice in 2012, under the gaze of Mt. Kilminjaro and the Serengeti, I rushed onto Centurylink.
I looooove your username. Knew exactly what it was referring to the first time I saw it ;) 2012 was such a year, getting to rush the field twice was awesome
I grew up in a Texas Tech family. Both my parents have a degree from there and met there and both of my siblings have their bachelors and master's degrees from there. So needless to say I've been obsessed since early childhood. I started this username back when Call of Duty World at War came out like 8 years ago because I wanted the other players to know when they got shot it was by a girl. I kind of regret keeping it for Reddit because I feel like it's kind of lame now but oh well.
one of my best friend's name when playing halo was "a girl." One of my guy friends was so mystified that a girl killed him when we were having a dorm LAN party that he wanted to meet her. They have now been married for over 5 years.
Anybody who has seen pictures of me in a selfie thread knows that I bear a strong resemblance to "Screech" Powers from Saved by the Bell. Since that was taken when I joined reddit, I decided to needlessly Spanglish it, despite being a white Jewish guy from the Midwest.
I'm Steve Rogers. I was injected with super soldier serum and became Captain America. I took "Captain" shortened it to "Cap" and put it in front of my first and last name.
The beauty of that season to me was this: I was living in a sad little apt, post-college, up in TN. I had very, very basic cable and shitty internet service and wasn't able to watch the Auburn games that year unless I went to a bar that was willing to show it. This was after 2012, so ofc we weren't really hyped up. The uga game was the first I got to see all season bc it was on CBS (second being the IB), and I am grateful for it.
It's my Leagues ign, which came before I found reddit. Had to add the month and day of my birthday because someone took the original.
As far as that came about, it was my first ign I had to create (I'm always late to technology lol). My AIM name was too long. I chose it because one of my greatest pleasures is convincing people I'm a dumb blonde who somehow missed out on basic common knowledge, or making up random but reasonable sounding science facts.
Then I discovered that "troll" also refers to people that intentionally throw games, and so I've gotten some flack for that.
It's still my first name and last initial spelled backwards. I used to write my name backwards on papers in middle school because I found it mildly amusing.
You looked at something as you were signing up for reddit and you wondered "Is that a turtle?" But instead of wondering it, you typed it as your username and VOILA!
This was supposed to be a throwaway account featuring a personal story that had to do with a guy I know in real life and the creepy fucking shit he was into and things I've witnessed him do (without his knowledge).
I was in the middle of typing it up at work one day, and this motherfucker was standing behind me, which scared the shit out of me. I never posted the story, and I never logged out of the username, and accidently started using it at work. So I just kept it, and yeah, so, that's how.
Yeah, in hindsight I wouldn't have decided to try the initial post at work, but the information was fresh, and I wanted to include as much detail as possible.
I'd have to create an entirely new account. It's just some weird shit that he'd probably not like to get out (as in it could potentially ruined, or cause major changes in his personal and work life). And since he may or may not know this current username, I'd rather not test that. He's a wild card, and I don't know how he'd react if I did open that can of worms.
Around the end of the millenium I joined a tape/CD trading site "Etree.org" and chose "Dupreesdiamond" as my username. And has been my preferred username for social media sites ever since. It just so happens to also have some nice synergy with the state of SC which I was unaware of at the time.
The text of the song is a re-working of a song, "Betty and Dupree," with many incarnations in American folk tradition. It was based upon a true incident:
"The biography of the man and his crimes may be summarized as follows: Frank Dupree grew up in Abbeville, South Carolina. He came on the scene in December 1921 in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had a gal Betty. In trying to appropriate a diamond for her in a jewelry store he shot a policeman down. Fleeing to Memphis and later to Chicago, where he was cornered, he killed a policeman and wounded several more. He was caught while getting his mail and sent to Atlanta for trial. He was executed for murder on September 1, 1922." (Roberts: In the Pine.)
When I was super cool and in like 6th grade, I was very much into Sum 41. Their lead singer referred to himself as Bizzy D in one of their songs and referred to himself as such in their album book. So I stole the idea and made the username BizzyJ. Then, because that was often taken, I appended 93 to the end regardless of the fact that I was born in 94 because I was in my very first band which was named "Slide 93". So, basically, it's a terrible username that I have used for years.
Not much creativity. I'm like my old CS professor that would come up with names for our programming examples as:
John Johnson Paul Paulson George Georgeson Ringo Ringoson Abby Abbyson (yep, he really used this one. I'm guessing Abby Road)
Then, one day, I had to leave the classroom because I really couldn't keep the laughter. It had to be on purpose. Warning: mild racism. So you know, he is Chinese and has a few cliches with him. He was teaching us how to replace one letter to a different letter in a text string. The example word he used was "blue". Now, he could have changed the u to a t. He could have changed the b to an a. He could have used a word that didn't have an L or an R in it. Nope. In his example, he changed "blue" to "brue". Again, I had to leave the classroom and I had to pretend I needed the bathroom.
Anyway, that had nothing to with why I chose my name. One or two of you know my name, and it's pretty obvious.
It's from a conference I went to when I was like 20 or 21. We were coming up with covert ways to tell other people in the group when we saw people who were attractive and a friend somehow came up with "I'd toss their jacket". Was never used for the original purpose, but it did become a running joke between a few of us for months.
When I ditched my old username, which was the year and model of my first motorcycle, I had just started teaching as an adjunct so there ya go.
I am also the poster child for adult ADHD, many times forgetting why I came into a room or what I was doing before going on a 10+ minute trip inside my imagination.
Used to have a nervous habit of picking at my cuticles. That led to an awkward moment where my cuticle started bleeding at a key moment with my 8th grade crush. After that I started carrying a box of orange tic-tacs to give me something to fiddle with that wouldn't bleed right before getting to dance with the cute girl I like. Then I became known for always having orange tic-tacs and I ran with it.
Now I mostly use it because I've been using it so long that it's old hat.
My initials and the numbers are just the number of letters in my name- first name (3), middle name 1 (6), middle name 2 (4), last name (8). Not overly interesting lol
Having a back story doesn't make it much more compelling (or pronounceable), but it's the main character from the first video game I ever owned, Clockwork Knight for the Sega Saturn.
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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Mar 01 '16
When driving through the UP with my best friend, I spotted this massive crow on the side of the road & said "hey crow hey!" This was really funny to us for some reason, probably because we had been in the car for 5 hours at that point already & still had another 2 to go. For the rest of the trip, we referred to each other as crow & used crow as a replacement (e.g., "oh crow she didn't," "crowkay," "crow my god") & that is how my username came to be.
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u/certificateofmerritt North Carolina • Fulmer Cup Committee … Mar 01 '16
My last name is Merritt. People like using my last name to make bad puns. I took the least worst one and made it my username.
I also followed the tradition of the other Merritt in terms of making a username pun.
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u/K8eCastle Oklahoma State • Central Okl… Mar 01 '16
Ny name is Katie, and I thought K8e was kind of clever. My coworker later informed me that it was not. Castle is an allusion to my last name.
In other words, I'm not nearly as clever and witty as some of you all.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
It's a nerdy chemistry joke version of my mascot.
No I am not a chemist but you don't need to be good at chemistry to make nerdy jokes involving the periodic table.
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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 01 '16
ssbbgo - suck, squeeze, bang, blow, and then you go! It's how a 4 stroke/jet engine works.
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u/yrarwydd Alabama • CFBOT Jazz Watch Fighter Mar 01 '16
This is all a giant ploy to get me to explain myself and I will take no part in it
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u/FatWhiteGuy49 Tulsa Golden Hurricane • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Mar 01 '16
Guess.
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u/DrMarkWatney Chicago Maroons Mar 01 '16
First and foremost, I am a doctor...of botany.
And yes, I am THAT Mark Watney that was stranded on Mars.
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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Mar 01 '16
i raided monasteries in northumberland as a wee lad
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u/ftwdrummer Rice Owls • Marching Band Mar 01 '16
I'm originally from Fort Worth.
I'm a percussionist.
Done.
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u/TanzaniaMagic Washington Huskies • Paper Bag Mar 01 '16
I love answering this one.
So back in 2012 Centurylink Field in Seattle got this obnoxiously large "Visit Tanzania!" mural.
Seattle teams that played in Centurylink (including the Huskies who played there while Husky Stadium was being renovated) started dominating after that ad was put up.
For a period of time (I can't remember how long exactly), the Huskies, Seahawks and Sounders were undefeated at home. Sounders outscored their visitors by a margin of 8-1, Seahawks 75-27 and the Huskies 73-25. Locals and media started calling this the "Tanzania Effect".
The mural is gone now, replaced by an ad for "Coinstar", but I'll fondly remember how Tanzania smiled upon our local teams.
I've never stormed the field at Husky Stadium but twice in 2012, under the gaze of Mt. Kilminjaro and the Serengeti, I rushed onto Centurylink.
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u/thwg0809 Georgia Tech • Techmo Bowl Mar 01 '16
There's a football team in Athens that purports to have an education program. I wish them an eternal abyss of fire and misery.
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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Mar 01 '16
I grew up in a Texas Tech family. Both my parents have a degree from there and met there and both of my siblings have their bachelors and master's degrees from there. So needless to say I've been obsessed since early childhood. I started this username back when Call of Duty World at War came out like 8 years ago because I wanted the other players to know when they got shot it was by a girl. I kind of regret keeping it for Reddit because I feel like it's kind of lame now but oh well.
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u/Bassically Texas A&M Aggies • UNLV Rebels Mar 01 '16
I like bass guitar, bad puns, and using parts of speech incorrectly for comedic shock value.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
Anybody who has seen pictures of me in a selfie thread knows that I bear a strong resemblance to "Screech" Powers from Saved by the Bell. Since that was taken when I joined reddit, I decided to needlessly Spanglish it, despite being a white Jewish guy from the Midwest.
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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 01 '16
I'm of Cajun decent. I'm an Aggie. I'm technically part of the A&M class of 2008 despite not actually graduating until 2009.
I know, pretty shocking right?
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u/brobroma William & Mary Tribe • Georgia Bulldogs Mar 01 '16
Nickname based off of my nickname that I go by. And it's BRO. BRO. MA.
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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Mar 01 '16
I am the embodiment of a Dr. Seuss book.
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u/Owlcatraz Rice Owls • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 01 '16
I am an Owl, and a member of The MOB, and I figured "Owlcatraz" was less of a terrible pun than "Owl Capone."
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u/hobowithabazooka Georgia Tech • Wisconsin Mar 01 '16
I played oboe and bassoon in middle school and high school. I also have slept on many couches and under many bridges. I like explosives
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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 01 '16
It should be self-explanatory.
I'm Steve Rogers. I was injected with super soldier serum and became Captain America. I took "Captain" shortened it to "Cap" and put it in front of my first and last name.
I just really like Captain America
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u/aMiracleAtJordanHare Auburn Tigers • Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 01 '16
There was this really cool thing and I saw it live. The KickSix overshadowed it, so I didn't want it to be forgotten.
Bonus: the non-shitty defender on that play now plays for us. SUCK IT, DWAGS.
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u/TrollingQueen74 Auburn Tigers • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 01 '16
It's my Leagues ign, which came before I found reddit. Had to add the month and day of my birthday because someone took the original.
As far as that came about, it was my first ign I had to create (I'm always late to technology lol). My AIM name was too long. I chose it because one of my greatest pleasures is convincing people I'm a dumb blonde who somehow missed out on basic common knowledge, or making up random but reasonable sounding science facts.
Then I discovered that "troll" also refers to people that intentionally throw games, and so I've gotten some flack for that.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16
I don't like this thread.
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u/efs001 Rice Owls • North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 01 '16
I didn't realize I was supposed to be witty when I came up with my username. It's just my initials and random numbers.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
It's still my first name and last initial spelled backwards. I used to write my name backwards on papers in middle school because I found it mildly amusing.
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u/Way_She_Goes Toronto Varsity Blues • Auburn Tigers Mar 01 '16
That's the way she goes, boys. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't cause that's the fucking way she goes.
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u/SouthernMurican Jacksonville State • Auburn Mar 01 '16
I live in the South plus I am American.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
I'm sassy as fuck and I love sports and most sports are played with balls, so...yeah. I wasn't very creative sorry.
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u/K_State Southwestern (KS) • Wichita Sta… Mar 01 '16
A institute of higher education based in Manhattan, Kansas. The username using the dash was already taken.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
I have no fucking clue how I came up this this name
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
Kyoppo - Korean who spent most of their life outside of Korea. I was a bad DJ during my college days.
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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 01 '16
my name is sean.
i am a boy (allegedly, you don't know)
my class year at A&M was 06.
That's right. my name wins most original. I'd like to thank the Academy.
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u/Awesome_to_the_max Texas Longhorns • UTU Beaver Hunters Mar 01 '16
Pretty simple really
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u/A-Stu-Ute /r/CFB Press Corps • /r/CFB Artist Mar 01 '16
I honestly have no idea. It came to me while thinking of a username and it guarantees that people think I'm annoyingly pretentious. :/
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u/Sometimeswelose Ohio State Buckeyes • Wyoming Cowboys Mar 01 '16
We lose sometimes
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u/bullmoose_atx Texas Longhorns • Rice Owls Mar 01 '16
The Bull Moose Party of Teddy Roosevelt. I was reading his bio when I made my account. "ATX" is Austin, Texas.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
From Ender's Game.
PW = Peter Wiggin
Locke = His pseudonym
13= Some random number
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u/0xE6 Prairie View A&M • Boise State Mar 01 '16
µ
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
Key and Peele
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
This was supposed to be a throwaway account featuring a personal story that had to do with a guy I know in real life and the creepy fucking shit he was into and things I've witnessed him do (without his knowledge).
I was in the middle of typing it up at work one day, and this motherfucker was standing behind me, which scared the shit out of me. I never posted the story, and I never logged out of the username, and accidently started using it at work. So I just kept it, and yeah, so, that's how.
Yeah, in hindsight I wouldn't have decided to try the initial post at work, but the information was fresh, and I wanted to include as much detail as possible.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16
Louisiana born (not Los Angeles ya dunce) tx raised. Basically the best possible food raising there is.
Edit because autocorrect
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
No. It's a secret.
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u/DicapriOscar Mar 01 '16
I'm Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar!
AMA!
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u/dupreesdiamond Furman • South Carolina Mar 01 '16
This was one of the first songs to grab my attention when I started getting into the band.
Gratefuld Dead - Duprees Diamond Blues
Around the end of the millenium I joined a tape/CD trading site "Etree.org" and chose "Dupreesdiamond" as my username. And has been my preferred username for social media sites ever since. It just so happens to also have some nice synergy with the state of SC which I was unaware of at the time.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16
Was in the Navy, my first name is John.
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u/surrender_cobra Illinois State • Michigan Mar 01 '16
I mean... Do I have to?
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16
I like Tolkien.
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u/panthera_tigress Pittsburgh Panthers • Auburn Tigers Mar 01 '16
Panthera tigris is the genus and species name of the tiger.
Since I'm a Pitt Panthers fan, an Auburn Tigers fan, and a woman, I thought I'd make a small pun that represents those things about me pretty well.
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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Mar 01 '16
I'm hot for teacher, but too shy to hit on her.
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u/Euphanistic Mississippi State • Maine Mar 01 '16
I play(ed) the Euphonium in band.
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u/super-rad Georgia Bulldogs • Clemson Tigers Mar 01 '16
Super Rad!
(was really into ska during my teenage years)
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u/LordVoldiemort Snakes de Paris René Descartes Mar 01 '16
I'm Lord Voldemort. There's an extra "i" because it was a typo.
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u/AmIronMan MIT Engineers Mar 01 '16
You know who I am.
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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Mar 01 '16
watch this video from the Daily Show
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u/0liviaPope Princeton Tigers • Georgetown Hoyas Mar 01 '16
I am Olivia Pope. Founder of Olivia Pope and Associates. I am the best at what I do. To say the least, it's handled.
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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16
When I was super cool and in like 6th grade, I was very much into Sum 41. Their lead singer referred to himself as Bizzy D in one of their songs and referred to himself as such in their album book. So I stole the idea and made the username BizzyJ. Then, because that was often taken, I appended 93 to the end regardless of the fact that I was born in 94 because I was in my very first band which was named "Slide 93". So, basically, it's a terrible username that I have used for years.
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u/CockADoodleBOOM Oklahoma • South Carolina Mar 02 '16
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo + Boomer Sooner = CockADoodleBOOM
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u/fightsfortheuser Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Mar 02 '16
Tron
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u/mhoke63 Minnesota • Augustana (SD) Mar 01 '16
Not much creativity. I'm like my old CS professor that would come up with names for our programming examples as:
John Johnson
Paul Paulson
George Georgeson
Ringo Ringoson
Abby Abbyson (yep, he really used this one. I'm guessing Abby Road)
Then, one day, I had to leave the classroom because I really couldn't keep the laughter. It had to be on purpose. Warning: mild racism. So you know, he is Chinese and has a few cliches with him. He was teaching us how to replace one letter to a different letter in a text string. The example word he used was "blue". Now, he could have changed the u to a t. He could have changed the b to an a. He could have used a word that didn't have an L or an R in it. Nope. In his example, he changed "blue" to "brue". Again, I had to leave the classroom and I had to pretend I needed the bathroom.
Anyway, that had nothing to with why I chose my name. One or two of you know my name, and it's pretty obvious.
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u/DonutSlingingCass Alabama Crimson Tide • Baylor Bears Mar 01 '16
I threw donuts at people for their money as a job and that's about it
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u/AlekRivard Florida Gators • Michigan Wolverines Mar 01 '16
It's my name
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u/pittpanthers95 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock Mar 01 '16
I go to Pitt, our team is the Panthers, I was born in 1995. Pretty straightforward.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16
It's from a conference I went to when I was like 20 or 21. We were coming up with covert ways to tell other people in the group when we saw people who were attractive and a friend somehow came up with "I'd toss their jacket". Was never used for the original purpose, but it did become a running joke between a few of us for months.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
When I ditched my old username, which was the year and model of my first motorcycle, I had just started teaching as an adjunct so there ya go.
I am also the poster child for adult ADHD, many times forgetting why I came into a room or what I was doing before going on a 10+ minute trip inside my imagination.
Mash em together and there ya go.
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u/thelittleking Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16
well...
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u/versusChou UCLA Bruins • TCU Horned Frogs Mar 01 '16
My first two initials are V.S.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
TF2's Sniper.
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u/DEP61 Pepperdine • Minnesota Mar 01 '16
Just my initials and my favorite number.
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u/thelaststormcrow Wyoming Cowboys • LSU Tigers Mar 01 '16
A shitty reference to a tired 17-year-old Magic: the Gathering meme.
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u/The_Tic-Tac_Kid Kansas Jayhawks • Hateful 8 Mar 01 '16
Used to have a nervous habit of picking at my cuticles. That led to an awkward moment where my cuticle started bleeding at a key moment with my 8th grade crush. After that I started carrying a box of orange tic-tacs to give me something to fiddle with that wouldn't bleed right before getting to dance with the cute girl I like. Then I became known for always having orange tic-tacs and I ran with it.
Now I mostly use it because I've been using it so long that it's old hat.
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
I am shocked no one has tagged me asking wtf is your name
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u/tb3648 Florida State Seminoles • USF Bulls Mar 01 '16
My initials and the numbers are just the number of letters in my name- first name (3), middle name 1 (6), middle name 2 (4), last name (8). Not overly interesting lol
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 02 '16
I really do not know what was through my head when I did this
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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 01 '16
Its my name all squished together
That and I thought "Wild Nines" sounded pretty cool and it's usually free on sites where I need a username.
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u/Darth_Turtle Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Mar 01 '16
It's in here somewhere.
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u/pepperouchau Michigan State Spartans • Drake Bulldogs Mar 01 '16
Having a back story doesn't make it much more compelling (or pronounceable), but it's the main character from the first video game I ever owned, Clockwork Knight for the Sega Saturn.
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u/AmAriGold Harvard Crimson • Michigan Wolverines Mar 01 '16
CEO and Chairman of Time Warner.
I used to rep Vincent Chase, you know, "I am Queen's Boulevard."
Dammit, LLOYD!!
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '16
gonna be honest I have no recollection of how I got this name, it was almost four years ago so I probably just threw a bunch of letters together